Imaging Informatics

Imaging informatics (also known as radiology informatics, a component of wider medical or healthcare informatics) includes systems to transfer images and radiology data between radiologists, referring physicians, patients and the entire enterprise. This includes picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), wider enterprise image systems, radiology information. systems (RIS), connections to share data with the electronic medical record (EMR), and software to enable advanced visualization, reporting, artificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, exam ordering, clinical decision support, dictation, and remote image sharing and viewing systems.

Will AI enrich radiology jobs—or take them away?

Tech moguls Bill Gates and Elon Musk have differing views on artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society. Gates believes AI will make our lives more productive; Musk has called it an “existential risk.”

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7 questions radiologists must answer about enterprise imaging

Cheryl Petersilge, MD, MBA, with the department of regional radiology at the Cleveland Clinic, examined enterprise imaging—and how radiologists must integrate and collaborate with other departments. Her clinical perspective clinical perspective was published online in the October issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Veteran researchers share the benefits, challenges of multicenter radiology research

Multicenter research studies, published collaborations between at least three medical centers, are becoming increasingly common in some healthcare specialties—but not radiology. A team of researchers explored this trend, surveying published academics about such studies, and published their findings in Academic Radiology.

Cincinnati Children’s Acquires Advanced CT Technology to Improve Pediatric Patient Care

Aquilion ONE / GENESIS Edition Delivers Fast, Safe Exams for Young Patients

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Northeast boasts most radiology residents, greatest job shortages

New research in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests the Northeastern United States has the highest per capita number of radiology residents, despite being the region most affected by job shortages.

ACR 2018 Call for Abstracts: Bring Focus to Radiology Research

Abstract Submission Opens for American College of Radiology Annual Meeting; Online Submission Closes Dec. 15

Radiology grapples with looming machine learning ‘threat’

Machine learning is quickly becoming a game changer within radiology.

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Progress through teamwork: 2 key collaborations between radiologists, scientists

Collaborating with various scientific disciplines has been essential for radiology’s growth over the years, according to a recent analysis published in Academic Radiology. Without the specialty reaching out and working with scientists in these other fields, it’s hard to imagine radiology as we know it today even existing.

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The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.